17 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Art Lover in Your Life, From Slightly Steamy to Totally Explicit

Unfortunately, it’s a few decades too late for you and the art lover in your life to join Andy Warhol in spending Valentine’s Day doodling hearts in Fiorucci’s erstwhile boutique. While a Warhol-made love note may no longer be an option, that doesn’t mean you can’t get your hands on an (almost) equally enviable gift for your crush by next week. That’s especially true if you’re looking to go the steamier route, which, thanks to Yoko Ono, you can do for as little as two dollars. (Though nothing drives a message home quite like the street artist WhisBe’s $7,500 neon spelling out “I fucking love fucking you” in all caps.) If you’re not at that stage in your relationship just yet, it’s also easy enough to keep things chaste—and, in the case of a Cindy Sherman pool float, definitely unexpected. There are at least a dozen more where those came from; take a look, here.

Let’s face it: No one can ever top Russell Simmons shutting down not just a basically impossible-to-get-into Yayoi Kusama installation but also an entire museum for a night to celebrate his first anniversary with Ciara. But that doesn’t mean you can’t carry on his legacy by giving the Kusama fan in your life a miniature, lacquer-painted resin version of one of her signature motifs: a polka-dot pumpkin.

If you happen to be dating someone who already has everything, well, this pool float in the shape of a blown-up iPhone featuring one of Cindy Sherman’s signature selfies is just for you. Bonus: Each comes with a premium gift box and an enviable drawstring swim bag.

You also don’t have to fret about your love already owning this one—unless, that is, you’re dating Cher, who once owned this black underwire lace bra. (Thankfully, it comes with photographic evidence that it’s not just any old hand-me-down.)

We’re going to assume that if you take your love’s appreciation for Jeff Koons, the world’s second most expensive artist, seriously, you won’t blink at an $11,000 price tag. Before going ahead with your purchase, however, a word of caution: Thanks to an incident at Art Basel Miami in 2016, it’s public knowledge that the porcelain pups are prone to shattering.

Perhaps to celebrate the fact that Tracey Emin has put her enfant terrible days in the past, one craftsy Etsy user has re-created the artist’s seminal 1998 installation, My Bed, documenting a days-long post-breakup fog in which she subsisted on alcohol and stayed put in her bedroom. Unlike the original, however, there are no condoms in this version; instead, everything is made out of Lego. (Don’t forget to help your partner in assembling all 215 pieces.)